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New Campaign Takes Aim at DOMA Through Tax Protest
Are you a married same-sex couple angry about having to file your tax return separate from your partner, and at the same time be dishonest about your marital status? Though there are certain risks,...
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Watch: First Giraffe Birth at Cincinnati Zoo in 26 Years
The Cleveland Leader reports: On Saturday, a new baby giraffe was born at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens to Tessa and Kimba, both four-year-old giraffes. The birth of the calf was the...
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LGBT Stories: Journalist Wants People To Remember Matthew Shepard's Life More...
NATHAN MANSKE Nathan Manske and Marquise Lee just finished a 4 month, 50 state tour of the United States collecting stories for their I'm From Driftwood site. We'll be sharing some of the stories they...
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Court: Anti-Gay Christian Bigot Not Protected by 1964 Civil Rights Act
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against a Wal-Mart worker who sued the company after she was fired for an anti-gay diatribe against homosexuality during a work break, Gay City News reports:...
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The White House releases guidance on reducing sexual violence on campuses
Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and University of New Hampshire Senior Sara Jane Bibeau deliver remarks at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham, NH, April 4, 2011....
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DNC Chair Tim Kaine Running for Senate in Virginia
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine announced his run for U.S. Senate in a web video posted today. Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP.. Politico reports: Though Kaine’s departure from the DNC for a...
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Listen: Darren Criss and Glee's Dalton Warblers Cover Keane
A new track from the upcoming Warblers album has hit the web, a cover of Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know". Above, a random screenshot of Criss' appearance some time ago on an MTV Networks dating show....
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Maryland's Gender Identity Bill Moves Out Of Rules Committee
"This is an important victory for democracy, that it proves that the most marginalized community, if it speaks out forcefully and directly enough, can move its government, and that many people are...
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VA Gov. Bob McDonnell: I Don't Want Gay Couples Adopting Children
This morning I mentioned that Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell was coming up on a deadline for a proposal to allow gays to adopt in the state of Virginia. Today O'Donnell made his opposition to the...
View ArticleFundie David Barton spreads the word about full 'Christian' control w/Seven...
I usually can laugh at some of the tidbits that Kyle at Right Wing Watch posts, because the fundies overreach way too often in ways that are hilarious. However this post about David Barton and Seven...
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News: Michael Kirby, Hot Wheels, Bradley Manning, Mister Cee
GOP lawmakers give Boehner standing ovation over government shutdown. Service chiefs to testify on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal before House panel on Thursday. Now this brings back memories. Watch:...
View ArticleGay Republican Wins New Hampshire GOP Presidential Primary Straw Poll.
Karger's campaign announcement ad (warning: steel yourself, includes obligatory Reagan ring-kiss. Barf!). The first candidate to throw his hat in the ring for the GOP Presidential nomination, Fred...
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MUSIC NEWS: Big Freedia, Linda Perry, Patrick Wolf, Maritime, Matt & Kim, Win...
NORMAN BRANNON Norman Brannon is a pop critic, musician, and author based in New York City. He presents a weekly music update here on Towleroad and writes regularly at Nervous Acid. Follow Norman on...
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Chair DNC
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) has been selected as the new chair of the DNC: "President Obama selected Ms. Wasserman Schultz as his choice to succeed Tim Kaine, who announced earlier Tuesday...
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Wingnut Cindy Jacobs Suggests Gays in the Military are Responsible for Recent...
Wingnut Cindy Jacobs of Generals International ministry is back to tell everyone that she was totally right about mass bird deaths being caused by the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", and,...
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Watch: Anti-Gay VA Delegate and HRC Rep. Debate Gay Adoption
Anti-gay delegate Bob Marshall, who is leading the charge against adoption by gay couples in Virginia, debates Human Rights Campaign Family Project Director Ellen Kahn about a proposal that would...
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Watch: kd lang Confesses, She Loves You Madly
More genius vocal work from kd lang on her latest, "I Confess". Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...
View ArticleFalwell's Liberty University received half a billion dollars in federal aid...
I'm not sure whether to laugh, cry or scream "I've been pickpocketed" at the news that the late Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, where the biology department teaches Young Earth Creationism, is...
View ArticleRepublicans embarrass themselves at DADT hearings
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless MonstersThis week, House Republicans held hearings over the implementation of DADT. From what I understand, it didn't go well for them. However, don't tell that...
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Thursday This & That: Open Thread
It's an open thread! Pleeeeease feel free to chat, blogwhore, and link-share in the comment thread... So, this is what my cartoon sockpuppet Bookworm Bob have been looking at since our last This &...
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